Asif Altaf
Not just beauty
Even within the abomination lies the craftsmanship of art
The butcher’s chapati is a flower-like arrangement of meat in bunches;
The bullet that danced in the killer’s mature hand
He also left the body of the deceased to take his life
Signature of aesthetic sense;
A skilled assassin means an artist;
What a beautiful dexterity in Dom’s hands in the mortuary
The knife dissects the body of the corpse;
He was crushed under the storm
Artistic expansion;
There is no more beautiful and noble art than death;
Numerous artistic fascinations say negative
We are constantly losing.
[Asif Altaf is a poet from Khulna, Bangladesh.]